Our culture loves a story with a good victim narrative.  And U.S. immigration detention seems to be filled with them.  News stories abound with images of immigrant women, hands stretched out, as they are ripped from their children.  Well-meaning journalists and advocates alike who are trying to achieve maximum sympathy from the audience dramatize the pain and suffering of people in immigration detention to promote reform or abolition.

The problem is: this victim narrative is not helping us win the fight to abolish immigration detention.  

Read the entire piece featuring grantee CIVIC at the Huffington Post.